Living near alcohol is dangerous for kids
A recent study has found that the closer that a teenager lives alcohol retailers the greater the chance that they will end up being influenced by drink, this could either mean binge drinking and drinking and driving.
The study showed that home that are within walking distance of the alcohol retailers there is evidence of the [...]
Windows 7 beta on torrent trackers
Windows 7 may becoming available as a beta release next month, but there are some people who are already running it on their machines, this is because as with all good software, Windows 7 has been leaked onto the main torrent trackers.
This ISO is the Windows 7 M1 Build (7000) this one runs better than [...]
Piracy overtaken by legal downloads
It must be a dream come true for the music industry as recent suggest that finally legal downloads of music have now overtaken illegal downloads and out of interest CD sales are also down.
Fifteen percent of Internet users purchased music from online music stores, such as iTunes and AmazonMP3, which is an increase of 2 [...]
December 22, 2008LED’s to save the world
Could something a tiny as an LED actually have a lot to do in saving the world? Well there are some people who believe so.
If these bulbs replaced all of the conventional light bulbs in homes and in business, the saving would be in the trillions, simply because of the fact that these lights use [...]
Opensource is not necessarily free
For many people the word Opensource usually means that this software is free, but it seems that this is not necessarily so, if fact the idea that opensource is yours to do with as you please is totally wrong and it fact has never been that way.
This is where the huge business Cisco have come [...]
Nintendo sued over Wii
There is a class action law suit in the US, which could mean that the Nintendo Wii said to be the biggest seller this Christmas, being blamed for the damage to televisions.
The £3 million case has been started by Molly Elvig, whose son threw the controller into the TV set while playing a game of [...]
The strange things found in lost property
People tend to leave some very strange stuff on trains, which if goes unclaimed these items will end up going to a good cause or an auction.
One railway company CrossCountry Trains who run lines across the entire UK serving Aberdeen, Penzance, Stansted Airport and Cardiff. They have found some surprising items left on their trains [...]
Bank accounts for sale
Identity thieves have obtained the banking details for around three in four German households a magazine is reporting.
To prove the point the thieves have put the details up for sale with an asking price of around £10 million, this money will buy the detail of twenty one million German bank accounts.
In an attempt to force [...]
Will Apple be able to beat Sony and Nintendo?
Apple has been diversifying their product range for a very long time and they have seen some serious success rates like that with the iPod, iPhone and other products too.
However, the games market has eluded them until recently that are, there has been a huge range of applications on the Apple Store website, and in [...]
High St cleaner finds cash
Imagine this, a street cleaner going about his daily business, maybe he was working in the high st, checking out all of the bargains in the store windows, when he reaches one of the litter bins that he has to empty this is a normal day for him up until this point.
This is because after [...]
The top Wii games
The Wii games console by Nintendo is set become one of the big sellers this Christmas, in fact there are feelings that the Wii could well become one of the all time greatest games machines in history to date.
It has definitely been a rocky road for fans of the company and in some cases, they [...]
Germany demand a million electric vehicles
The German government are planning to have over a million plug in hybrid and electric cars on their roads within eleven years; it was announced at the Future of Electric Transportation conference.
The plan will mean huge investment in the areas of battery development, an infrastructure to cope with the increase in electric cars and the [...]
Microsoft’s free security measures
It was a bit of a shock when Microsoft announced that they would be dropping the £30 per year Windows Live OneCare service in favour of a new product, which has been initially named Morro.
This service offers free anti malware, viruses, root kits, Trojans, spyware and other threats yet to appear on the scene.
By [...]